I try to start most days by reading at least 10 pages. On the days that I do, I've noticed I tend to have a much better day. Embarrassingly, I've only started tracking what I read recently. I'll be backfilling this list to the best of my recollection over the next few months.
2026
No One's Coming
Kevin Hazzard
A Short Introduction to Anneliese
James Elkins
The Rest of Our Lives
Benjamin Markovits
Capitalism
Sven Beckert
Sea Above, Sun Below
George Salis
Your Name Here
Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff
The Soviet Century
Karl Schlögel
The Day of Oprichnik
Vladimir Sorokin
The Orange Eats Creeps
Grace Krilanovich
Weak in Comparison to Dreams
James Elkins
2025
Across the Board
Tim Clare
North Sun
Ethan Rutherford
Flesh
David Szalay
Schattenfroh
Michael Lentz
The Möbius Book
Catherine Lacey
Why Nothing Works
Marc Dunkelman
The Invention of Prehistory
Stefanos Geroulanos
Goliath's Curse
Luke Kemp
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
The Ever-Changing Past
James Banner
Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon
Unworld
Jayson Green
Nuclear War
Annie Jacobsen
Weepers
Peter Mendelsund
An Oral History of Atlantis
Ed Park